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It's sad how many Americans don't realize how many white people live in Latin America - they've lived all their lives in Latin America and their families have b

It's sad how many Americans don't realize how many white people live in Latin America - they've lived all their lives in Latin America and their families have been in Latin America for centuries. We definitely have a stereotype for those living in Latin America. That and not everybody in Latin America speaks Spanish, either. But hey, I'm a white guy! What do I know about other people and cultures?!

testfoobar 4y ago
I have an Argentinian friend. Brilliant guy with a lovely family. He has a senior level big tech job. Vacations around the world with his family. Drives fancy cars. Currently building a beautiful new home. He is also fair skinned, blonde and blue eyed - as is his family. He objectively looks "white". Why does it matter? Because in the current DEI world, he and his children can mark "Hispanic" or "Latino" on all forms (I may be wrong here on whether it is both). His children will therefore benefit from many advantages granted by DEI benefactors. Lost in this crazy DEI calculus is that this is a wealthy family.
- filoleg 4y ago
  Everyone who doesn't align with the "stereotypes" assigned to each group by the DEI bible gets affected disproportionally in really weird ways. Your friend is one of those cases. I am not blaming him or his kids for utilizing the current situation to their advantage, and I don't feel particularly bad about someone getting a lucky hand and playing it well either. Good for him and his kids. But on the flipside, imagine being an asian-american kid coming from a poor family. Not only you get disadvantaged by the financial situation in your household, you then get screwed over by the DEI initiatives on top of that. Too bad, kid, shoulda aligned with the "stereotypes" assigned to your group by DEI better and had well-earning and educated parents. And given how DEI policy supporters often use the "it is for the greater good as a society" argument, it feels doubly dirty and insulting to those individuals. Even the factual outcomes and effects of such policies aside, officially assigning those "economic stereotypes" to various ethnic groups and treating individual people in those groups based on those "stereotypes" (derived from the aggregate data for that group) just feels icky.
stemlord 4y ago
I don't think it's just people from the states with these assumptions about South American racial heritage. Anyway, it is by and large non-white, even if there is much more purely-Spanish Euro etc descent ancestry there than people assume.

testfoobar 4y ago

I have an Argentinian friend. Brilliant guy with a lovely family. He has a senior level big tech job. Vacations around the world with his family. Drives fancy cars. Currently building a beautiful new home. He is also fair skinned, blonde and blue eyed - as is his family. He objectively looks "white". Why does it matter? Because in the current DEI world, he and his children can mark "Hispanic" or "Latino" on all forms (I may be wrong here on whether it is both). His children will therefore benefit from many advantages granted by DEI benefactors. Lost in this crazy DEI calculus is that this is a wealthy family.

filoleg 4y ago
Everyone who doesn't align with the "stereotypes" assigned to each group by the DEI bible gets affected disproportionally in really weird ways. Your friend is one of those cases. I am not blaming him or his kids for utilizing the current situation to their advantage, and I don't feel particularly bad about someone getting a lucky hand and playing it well either. Good for him and his kids. But on the flipside, imagine being an asian-american kid coming from a poor family. Not only you get disadvantaged by the financial situation in your household, you then get screwed over by the DEI initiatives on top of that. Too bad, kid, shoulda aligned with the "stereotypes" assigned to your group by DEI better and had well-earning and educated parents. And given how DEI policy supporters often use the "it is for the greater good as a society" argument, it feels doubly dirty and insulting to those individuals. Even the factual outcomes and effects of such policies aside, officially assigning those "economic stereotypes" to various ethnic groups and treating individual people in those groups based on those "stereotypes" (derived from the aggregate data for that group) just feels icky.

stemlord 4y ago

I don't think it's just people from the states with these assumptions about South American racial heritage. Anyway, it is by and large non-white, even if there is much more purely-Spanish Euro etc descent ancestry there than people assume.